[EXTJSIV-1804]Ext.ComponentQuery.query() for ItemId's / xtypes containing '.'

[varunach]

This technique works for aliases too.
From Brian Moeskau's calendar app, an Event edit window is defined as

alias : 'widget.extensible.eventeditwindow'

ComponentQuery matches the following search correctly

Ext.ComponentQuery.query('window[xtype="extensible.eventeditwindow"]');

ExtJS version 4.1.1

[GustavR]

Sadly there has not been any response from the developers yet...

Here is what they should do/change to make this work:

Ext.ComponentQuery (lines 215ff.)
FROM

// Matches a token with possibly (true|false) appended for the "shallow" parameter
tokenRe = /^(#)?([\w\-]+|\*)(?:\((true|false)\))?/,

matchers = [{
    // Checks for .xtype with possibly (true|false) appended for the "shallow" parameter
    re: /^\.([\w\-]+)(?:\((true|false)\))?/,
    method: filterByXType
},{

TO

// Matches a token with possibly (true|false) appended for the "shallow" parameter
tokenRe = /^(#)?([\w\-\.]+|\*)(?:\((true|false)\))?/,

matchers = [{
    // Checks for .xtype with possibly (true|false) appended for the "shallow" parameter
    re: /^\.([\w\-\.]+)(?:\((true|false)\))?/,
    method: filterByXType
},{

Mind the "\." inside the two regular expressions.

It is really only a small change and has no side effects, as far as we noticed in our application.

Please Sencha, make this happen!

[GustavR]

Still suffering from this bug.
Is there any news on this issue so far?

[boblestat]

Backing up GustavR on this one. It would be a very useful fix/improvement.
Overriding is ok, but it's always better if it's actually done by the framework

[SebTardif]

I think if we don't see a bug number on the top of the thread, Sencha is not going to do anything about it.

[Ron Howard]

This is still an issue with 4.2.0 Beta 2.
The class manager recognizes the dot fine and allows an xtype of 'myapp.mytextfld' but the ComponentQuery returns nothing when looking via xtype. But the ComponentQuery will return any xtype that extends the base xtype so a search for 'textfield' shows the component of 'myapp.mytextfld'.

If the Class Manager recognizes it as a component the Component Query should return the component based off that xtype with a dot in it.

Dashes work fine with the xtype and Component Query. But now my company has to change its standards for xtypes to not have a dot in it if they want to use the Component Query.

Every xtype we had in 3.x had a dot in it.